Tuesday, May 3, 2011

[DMANET] AIRO 2011 - Extended Submission Deadline May 15th

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AIRO 2011 - EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE MAY 15th
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42nd Annual Conference of
the Italian Operational Research Society
September 6-9, 2011 - Brescia - Italy
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50th AIRO ANNIVERSARY
A special plenary session will celebrate the 50th anniversary of AIRO.
The session will be enlivened by all former presidents of AIRO, the
President of UMI, the President of AMASES, and the President of SIMAI.

INVITED SPEAKERS
PLenary sessiones will be given by:
Dimitris Bertsimas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Angel Corberan (Universitat de Valencia)
Martine Labbe' (Universita' Libre de Bruxelles)

THEME AND SCOPE
The conference will address all areas of Operational Research, with special
emphasis on models and solution methods for decision support in transportation
and logistics.

SUBMISSION
Researchers are invited to submit an abstract of at most 2000 characters
(spaces included), without mathematical formulas, by MAY 15th, 2011.
Required information for the submission are: title, authors, affiliations,
addresses and emails, three keywords and at most five references. The speaker
has to be indicated as first author. The abstracts should be written
in English
and uploaded at the conference web-site (http://airo2011.eco.unibs.it)
according
to the specified format.

Proposals for invited sessions are welcome. Researchers interested to organize
an invited session should contact M. Grazia Speranza (Program
Committee Chair).
A special session dedicated to PhD theses is also planned. Interested speakers
should contact L. Bertazzi (Program Committee Co-Chair).

SELECTION OF PAPERS
The AIRO 2011 Program Committee will select the papers to be presented at the
conference.

SESSIONS
The conference is organized into plenary and parallel sessions. Opportunities
for software demonstrations are available. The conference languages
are Italian
and English. Each speaker can give only one talk.

IMPORTANT DATES
May 15th, 2011: EXTENDED deadline for abstract submission
May 30, 2011: notification of acceptance
June 10, 2011: deadline for early registration
September 6-9, 2011: conference

CONTACTS
e-mail: airo2011@eco.unibs.it
web: http://airo2011.eco.unibs.it

ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS
Universita' degli Studi di Brescia
Associazione Italiana Ricerca Operativa (AIRO)

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
M. Grazia Speranza - Chair of the Program Committee
e-mail: speranza@eco.unibs.it

Luca Bertazzi - Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee
e-mail: bertazzi@eco.unibs.it

Renata Mansini - Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee
e-mail: rmansini@ing.unibs.it


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AIRO 2011 - Organizing Committee

September 6-9, 2011 - Brescia - Italy
http://airo2011.eco.unibs.it


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